Numeracy
Developing bright minds from birth to adolescence
If you had to choose two facts to show how extensive brain development is between birth and 12 years, they might be these:
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90% of a child’s brain develops in the first 5 years of life.
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The connections in a 3-year-old’s brain are understood to number around 1000 trillion and reduce through the next 10 years to settle at around 500 trillion in adolescence.

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